Unbeknown to her she has been drugged, and she slips into unconsciousness. The following morning, horrifying details of how the driver sexually assaulted her start to come back.
Writer Jeff Pope’s shocking articulation of the story tells how the system drastically failed Worboys’s victims, who felt the authorities didn’t investigate thoroughly, and that they simply weren’t believed.
Episode 1 focuses on single mother Sarah Adams (a false name to protect the real victim’s identity). Portrayed by an empathetic Aimée-Ffion Edwards (Slow Horses), Sarah’s claims of her drugging and assault are dismissed in 2003 due to a perceived lack of evidence.
Worboys, meanwhile, is chillingly adept at covering his tracks. Second-guessing the police and ruthlessly controlling the narrative, when Sarah comes round in hospital the next morning, she’s told her “kindly cabbie” was the one who ensured her safety. This immediately undermines subsequent allegations of violence, while toxicology tests also fail to detect any substances that would point to the victim being drugged. Worboys has thought of everything.
Sarah, and Worboys’s other victims, must endure the indignity and stress of being interviewed multiple times with little regard for the psychological impact of reliving their ordeal. There are degrading physical examinations to gather intimate evidence, and the ignominy of being passed along to different officers as interest in solving the crime appears to fade. Within a few months, the case is dropped altogether, and a shellshocked Sarah must somehow pick up the pieces and carry on with her life.
With Believe Me, Pope now directly questions how a dangerous man like Worboys was allowed to remain at large and continue attacking women for so long. He, the victims, and the viewer, want answers that become increasingly difficult to obtain, shining a light on serious failings within the Met that severely compromise how much they can be trusted by the people they are meant to protect.
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Believe Me continues at 9pm on ITV1 on Monday 11 May, with all four episodes available to stream now on ITVX.
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